The phrase "a distant backdrop of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that serves as a background or setting that is far away or not immediately present.
Example: "The painting featured a distant backdrop of mountains, adding depth to the serene landscape."
Alternatives: "a remote background of" or "a far-off setting of".
In the Berlin version, illustrated in the catalog, the piazza is viewed through a pillared portico with a coffered ceiling, against a distant backdrop of a stretch of sea on which float ships with billowing sails.
On a coastal plain of lush green fields right by the Lancaster canal, and framed by a distant backdrop of Lakeland and Bowland fells (and, yes, the occasional factory unit), the location is pretty idyllic.
But gazing to the south and west from the same perch reveals a more traditional Brooklyn landscape: here a cluster of bank offices, there a line of cars at a Flatbush Avenue traffic light, set against a distant backdrop of low-rises and brownstones.
In September, new management provided spotty service, but the place has an incomparable view of Penn Cove, especially at dusk, when snow-capped mountains form a distant backdrop to sailboats moored for the night.
SANNES, FRANCE — The setting of the Château de Sannes has all the charm that Provence is famous for: gently rolling hills, the Luberon mountains as a distant backdrop, and the sunlight that nurtures olives, vineyards and fields of lavender.
Every culture in the world is celebrated in the movie theater... Precious little equals seeing the reality of indigenous cultures telling stories in their own tongue, showing you the way people from a distant backdrop think and how their beliefs inform their lives.
Players have complained in the past about the United Center in Chicago and Staples Center in Los Angeles, two modern arenas with high ceilings and, because of their design, a distant-looking backdrop of faces.
The March sisters live in what we might call genteel poverty, with the Civil War as a vague, distant backdrop.
John's remark is meant to peg him as insensitive, but that's all that the momentous change in the nation's status is for "Tangerine": a distant, colorful backdrop providing thematic echoes of the intrigue on center stage.
Galaxy IC 335 in front of a backdrop of distant galaxies.
It shows us a beguiling studio world, a pantomime vision of the Grimms' Mitteleuropa, with a painted backdrop of the distant palace, paper leaves on the trees and the transformed prince very obviously a man in a bearsuit.
